CD Readers

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Originally posted by cbrjab
I just want to say that as great as plextor is and I myself would recommend getting one, Yamaha and HP also have burners that will burn Karaoke. I have a Yamaha CRW-F1UX and an older HP8200E both usb burners and they both burn CD+G. The yamaha burns around 16x and HP only burns at 4x. Even though the yamaha is rated to burn much faster, it won't. The yamaha doesn't play back well with Microstudio, graphics issue, but the CD+Gs play fine on a Karoake player, and I just have a cheap Karaoke player from Target to test my CDs once I've burned them.I've burned hundreds of CDs and have maybe had 1 or 2 bad ones. I've used the mitsui, memorex, imation, or even the cheapies, they have all worked, I do like the Mitsui disk the best. You can SEE the difference in quality.

In past years... MTU has sold Yamaha, Teac, HP, and Sony (who made the HP mechanism). We typically rejected 4 to 6 drives out of a test lot of 10. That was not very good then, and we can accurately tell you that these drives degrade over time and eventually will not do the CDG format correctly. You can read about our testing methods, and what you can expect, by clicking this link and scrolling to the bottom section of the page.

WARNING! Microstudio 2.506 and higher will NO LONGER use any drive except MTU's CDG Certified drives. All other drives today, including Yamaha and HP will no longer read or write the CDG format. Yes, you can find an older used drive that can do CDG. Microstudio 2.400 will still read these drives if you want to purchase that version.